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OT: Tropical cyclone in real time
 

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Nick Payne
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 2625
Location: Canberra, Australia

2/26/13 10:08 PM

OT: Tropical cyclone in real time

Don't know how much longer this view of the cyclone and its eye will be visible, but our BoM weather radar for Port Hedland, where a cyclone has been sitting just offshore with virtually no movement for the past couple of days, makes for interesting viewing at the moment: http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR163.loop.shtml#skip

About one-sixth of all the iron ore in the world goes out through Port Hedland, and the whole place has been sitting idle since Sunday because of the cyclone, which is expected to cross the coast as a category 4 system sometime later today. Here's one of the stills from the radar loop:

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ErikS
Joined: 19 May 2005
Posts: 8337
Location: Slowing boiling over in the steamy south, Global Warming is real

2/27/13 4:27 AM

Living on the south eastern coast of the US I am familiar with the storm type. I always wondered if they rotated backwards (clockwise) in the southern hemisphere. Your pic tells me they turn opposite from ours as I thought. . What are the wind speeds and atom pressures of the storm?

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Nick Payne
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 2625
Location: Canberra, Australia

2/27/13 5:36 AM

The evening news reported the central pressure as 952 hPa and wind gusts near the centre as 205kph. Luckily it crossed the coast about 100km East of Port Hedland in a pretty uninhabited area. so they probably escaped fairly lightly (comparatively speaking).

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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19063
Location: PDX

2/27/13 10:06 AM

"Your pic tells me they turn opposite from ours as I thought."

And water goes down the drain similarly... Reverse of the No. hemi.

And the natural torsion on the Ausi brain is reverse too, which is why they are all a bit loopy in the apple and pears.... ;)

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